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Kazakhstani management culture : perception of french managers

BESSEYRE DES HORTS, Charles-Henri; MURATBEKOVA, Maral - HEC Paris (École des Hautes Études Commerciales) - 1999

incident technique (Flanagan, 1954) - to explain the peculiarities of Kazakhstani management culture that create problems and … consider Kazakhstani management culture as a being rather than doing culture with a higher degree of uncertainty avoidance; a … orientation. The differences in human nature are significant. Results also suggest that Kazakhstani management culture is …

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Nudging Healthy Lifestyles – Informing Regulatory Governance with Behavioural Research

Alemanno, Alberto; Amir, On; Bovens, Luc; Burgess, Adam; … - HEC Paris (École des Hautes Études Commerciales) - 2012

At a time when policy makers want to change the behaviour of citizens to tackle a broad range of social problems, such as climate change, excessive drinking, obesity and crime, a promising new policy approach has appeared that seems capable of escaping the liberal reservations typically...

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Small Steps or Giant Leaps Forward: Theoretical Contributions in Management Studies

Cornelissen, J. P.; Durand, Rodolp - HEC Paris (École des Hautes Études Commerciales) - 2013

How do we, as management researchers, develop novel theoretical contributions, and potentially break new ground, in … management studies? To address this question, we review previous methodological work on theorizing and advance a typology of the … reasoning processes that underlie theoretical contributions and significant advances in management studies. This typology …

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Category Stretching: Reorienting Research on Categories in Strategy, Entrepreneurship, and Organization Theory

Durand, Rodolphe; Paolella, Lionel - HEC Paris (École des Hautes Études Commerciales) - 2013

We advocate for more tolerance in the manner we collectively address categories and categorization in our research. Drawing on the prototype view, organizational scholars have provided a ‘disciplining’ framework to explain how category membership shapes, impacts and limits organizational...

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Jules or Jim: Alternative Conformity to Minority Logics

Durand, Rodolphe; Jourdan, Julien - HEC Paris (École des Hautes Études Commerciales) - 2011

To what extent do organizations respond favorably to minority participation, i.e. conform to demands from minority resource suppliers that hold an unconventional logic? A favorable response to minority participation (i.e. “alternative conformity”) contributes to decrease the influence of...

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A Behavioural Approach to Health Promotion: Informing the Global NCD Agenda with Behavioural

Alemanno, Alberto - HEC Paris (École des Hautes Études Commerciales) - 2014

At a time in which behavioural science has gained increasing attention for the design of population-wide health interventions, this chapter discusses its potential contributions to the prevention and control of Non-Communicable-Diseases (NCDs). Given the largely preventable nature of NCDs, any...

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Challengers from within Economic Institutions: A Second-Class Social Movement? A Response to Déjean, Giamporcaro, Gond, Leca and Penalva-Icher's Comment on French SRI

Arjaliès, Diane-Laure - HEC Paris (École des Hautes Études Commerciales) - 2013

In a recent comment made about my paper “A Social Movement Perspective on Finance: How Socially Responsible Invetsment Mattered” (J Bus Ethics 92:57–78, 2010), published in this journal, Déjean, Giamporcaro, Gond, Leca and Penalva-Icher (J Bus Ethics 112: 205-212, 2013) strongly criticize...

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Strategic Approaches of CO2 Emissions: The Cases of the Cement Industry and Chemical Industry

Arjaliès, Diane-Laure; Goubet, Cécile; Ponssard, Jean … - HEC Paris (École des Hautes Études Commerciales) - 2013

The ability of firms to transform an environmental constraint into a strategic opportunity has been a controversial issue in the literature. Based on a comparative study of CO2 strategies in the cement and chemical industries, the article shows that the capacity of firms to be proactive...

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Understanding value generation in buyouts

Gottschalg, Oliver; Berg, Achim - HEC Paris (École des Hautes Études Commerciales) - 2005

In this paper, the authors develop a three-dimensional conceptual framework for value generation in buyouts that categorizes and links the different levers of buyouts value generation. This framework provides the basis to take a look beyond individual value levers and shed light on the...

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What does it take to be good parent ? Opening the black-box of value creation in the unrealated multibusiness firm

Olivier, Gottschalg; Meier, Degenhard - HEC Paris (École des Hautes Études Commerciales) - 2006

This paper develops and tests new theory about the determinants of value creation in unrelated multibusiness firms from a resource-based perspective. The authors argue that the availability of "headquarter resources", which are at the basis of headquarter services provided to the business units,...

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